We performed a comparison between IBM PowerVM and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a stable solution with reliable performance."
"The feature that I like most is the versatility."
"The case fileserver on the web server is the most valuable feature."
"The stability is the most valuable aspect of this solution. IBM is the most powerful and stable platform."
"PowerVM is perhaps the only virtualization platform that offers 99.999% availability."
"The most valuable feature of IBM PowerVM is the performance of the database workload."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility in terms of managing the hardware resources such as RAM, CPU, and the network."
"You can increase resources with it automatically."
"The roadmap for the product itself covers all of the features that we are looking for."
"The fact that we have the ability to easily scale out, and the ability to do maintenance on the underlying hardware without impacting our business applications, are important aspects."
"In the past, we struggled with VM encryption. We couldn't encrypt the virtual machines with older versions of vSphere without some kind of third-party tool. Now, with 6.7, it's all in the application itself, in vSphere. We no longer have to procure additional products to meet that requirement. We can just do it on the fly, and pass our audit with no issues."
"The ability to create or clone a virtual environment in a short period of time for testing is most valuable."
"being able to manage a lot of servers in one pane of glass makes things a lot simpler. Basically, a lot of things just happen in one area. You can roll things over, move things around more dynamically, without having to hit multiple systems."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its performance."
"Most valuable features are quick provisioning, High Availability, and DRS for balancing workload."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"The cost of this solution is high."
"Automatic LPM is an area that is currently not available in IBM PowerVM, and it is a feature I want to see in the product's future releases."
"IBM should review the price of this solution in my opinion; it is too high."
"The solution should be advanced to fit with the container constantly."
"To make it a ten, I would like for them to add automation and configuration tools in order to help use the manager."
"I don't know whether this has been trialed already, but IBM should give us an alert when we reach seven or eight failovers so that we can automatically switch it to manual mode. That would be great because if we cross the 10-day licensing limit, we have to pay a hefty license cost to Oracle. If IBM could view that feature, it would be helpful in license compliance."
"The hardware licensing model could be improved because the licensing model is a bit different from the standard hardware procured."
"The solution's interface needs to be integrated with messaging analysis."
"I would like to see VDP and other features included to back up the VMs in a native manner."
"To manage it properly, you have to know this product really well."
"The biggest issue with stability is the SSO. That is still an issue as far as integrating it with Active Directory, and any large scale of it."
"vSphere could perhaps be improved by more integration or better security."
"It is expensive. They can improve the licensing cost for Cloud Director. They can also improve the integration with other applications and the metering feature, which is currently not flexible."
"The documentation could be improved. It does not help me to show the client the value of going with VMware vSphere rather than an open source or cheaper solution."
"It could be more scalable."
"The price is a big issue for us because the market is very competitive in our country, so we can't really push our VMware vSphere products because the customers will prefer to use something cheaper."
IBM PowerVM is ranked 9th in Server Virtualization Software with 28 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 446 reviews. IBM PowerVM is rated 8.4, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM PowerVM writes "A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". IBM PowerVM is most compared with Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Proxmox VE and Oracle VM VirtualBox, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI). See our IBM PowerVM vs. VMware vSphere report.
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